Social impact of artificial intelligence

Social impact of artificial intelligenceWhen we are able to create machines smarter than humans, then those machines could do likewise, but much faster. The problem of the threat of unfriendly artificial intelligence and losing control of the machines we have built remains unsolved. Artificial autonomous agents are, in one sense the next stage in the development of technology. Autonomous agents perceive, decide, and act on their own. A machine (such as your brain) cannot predict (and thus cannot control) a machine of greater algorithmic complexity, which is a bound on a formal measure of intelligence. As a consequence, AI is an evolutionary process: each generation experimentally creates modified versions of itself without knowing which versions will be smarter. Moral destruction: could we become less human-indeed, less than human-as a result of advances in AI? This might happen if people were to come to believe that purpose, choice, hope, and responsibility are all sentimental illusions. Those who believe that they have no choice, no autonomy, are unlikely to try to exercise it. But this need not happen, for our goals and beliefs-in a word, our subjectivity-are not threatened by AI. The philosophical implications of AI are the reverse of what they are commonly assumed to be: properly understood, AI is not dehumanizing. Political destruction could result from the exploitation of AI (and highly centralized telecommunications) by a totalitarian state. If AI research had developed programs with a capacity for understanding text, understanding speech, interpreting images, and updating memory, the amount of information about individuals that was potentially available to government would be enormous. Many people fear that in developing AI, we may be sowing the seeds of our own destruction, our own physical, political, economical, and moral destruction. Computer technology (and AI in particular) cannot in principle achieve the reliability required for a use where...

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...Contents
Introduction III
History III
What is ArtificialIntelligence? III
Social and Ethical Issues Associated with ArtificialIntelligence IV
Part I SocialImpact of ArtificialIntelligence IV
Part II Advantages IV
Part III Disadvantages IV
Ethical Impact of ArtificialIntelligence V
Conclusion VI
Bibliography VII
Introduction
As our world expands through the growing abilities and applications of computers in our everyday lives, it seems that the role of the computer has been reversed. Before we knew that the computer only understood what we programmed it to understand; however, now the majority of our society is learning more from computers than they are able to input into it. Dumm (1986 p.69)
History
"The human aspiration to create intelligent machines has appeared in myth and literature for thousands of years, from stories of Pygmalion to the tales of the Jewish Golem." Anat Treister-Goren, Ph.D. (http://www.a-i.com/)
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KEYWORDS:-
ArtificialIntelligence, lisp, prolog, descriptive, normative, cognitive
INTRODUCTION:-
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LITERATURE SURVEY:-
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A
machine is said to be intelligent if it deceives a human into believing that it was a human.
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History & Origin of AI
The history of AI is as old as human history. Primitive man invented games like chess as today we play computer games. The idea of creating an intelligence being was proposed and discussed in various ways by writers and philosophers centuries before the computer was invented. The Roman poet Ovid wrote a story of a beautiful woman brought to life, later forming the fable “MY FAIR LADY”.
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Future & Scope of AI
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What is ArtificialIntelligence? ……………………………………………………………….. 3
Defining Intelligence ………………………………………………………………………….. 4
A Glimmer of a Thought………………………………………………………………………. 5
The Beginning of a New Intelligence………………………………………………………….. 6
AI Applications of Today: Where Would You Find AI? ……………………………………... 7
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………... 8
References……………………………………………………………………………………… 10
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References
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the technology industry providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in
computer science. This field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans,
intelligence can be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine. So roughly
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intelligence.
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